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	Copyright © 2016-2017 Alex Yst <mailto:copyright@y.st>

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			<h1>About me</h1>
			<p>Who is Yst?</p>
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<p>
	Hello! My name is Alex Yst (pronounced &quot;ist&quot; like the end of the word &quot;catal<strong>yst</strong>&quot;), and this is my home on the Web.
	I&apos;m a bit too busy to get everything done on this website as I&apos;d like to, so please bear with me.
	Development here is very slow.
	This website is going in <strong>no particular direction</strong>, and simply contains whatever I happen to want to make available on the Web.
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<p>
	As for myself, I&apos;m a computer science <a href="/en/coursework/">student</a> at <a href="http://www.uopeople.edu/">University of the People</a>.
	I&apos;m very much a supporter of free software and free culture, and believe the two to be highly intertwined.
	I don&apos;t settle for garbage licenses such as the <abbr title="GNU &quot;Free&quot; Documentation License">GFDL</abbr>, <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial">CC BY-NC</abbr>, or <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives">CC BY-ND</abbr>, regardless of the nature of the item being licensed.
	I used to be a supporter of the <abbr title="Free Software Foundation">FSF</abbr> until I learned that they actively promote the use on nonfree licensing, especially for non-software works based on opinion.
	I use Debian on my laptop and server, and Replicant on my mobile device.
	Though I was born right-handed, I was able to become ambidextrous with a couple years of practice.
	I highly recommend it, it&apos;s great having full use of both hands.
	It feels like I&apos;ve recovered from a handicap that I&apos;ve always had.
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	I&apos;m an agendered phallosexual; that means I don&apos;t feel masculine or feminine, and I can pair with someone of any gender as long as they have working male reproductive organs.
	If you don&apos;t know the difference between sex and gender, that statement might not make much sense to you; sex is a description of what&apos;s between your legs, while gender is a description of what&apos;s in your mind.
	Many people don&apos;t know what the words &quot;agendered&quot; or &quot;phallosexual&quot; mean, so I tend to mis-identify as a gay male for simplicity, ignoring gender altogether.
	I&apos;m a bit sensitive about my sexuality though.
	I feel shallow for not being able to pair with someone regardless of their sex organs, but humans are animals; we have instinctual needs that we can&apos;t override.
	We don&apos;t pick our sexualities.
	I&apos;m looking for a monogamous love interest, but I&apos;m currently single.
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	If you&apos;re visiting my website, please check on my <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a>.
	It acts as a safety mechanism to know if I have been legally required to withhold information.
	If my canary hasn&apos;t chirped in a while, <strong>*please*</strong> alert anyone you feel is relevant to the fact that I need help.
	My <abbr title="Pretty Good Privacy">PGP</abbr> key <abbr title="identification">ID</abbr> is <code>0xE7464A03</code> and my <abbr title="Pretty Good Privacy">PGP</abbr> fingerprint is <code>D135 B061 DBED 690B 479F E2E3 7D83 E1E5 E746 4A03</code>.
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			Copyright © 2016-2017 Alex Yst;
			You may modify and/or redistribute this document under the terms of the <a rel="license" href="/license/gpl-3.0-standalone.xhtml"><abbr title="GNU&apos;s Not Unix">GNU</abbr> <abbr title="General Public License version Three or later">GPLv3+</abbr></a>.
			If for some reason you would prefer to modify and/or distribute this document under other free copyleft terms, please ask me via email.
			My address is in the source comments near the top of this document.
			This license also applies to embedded content such as images.
			For more information on that, see <a href="/en/a/licensing.xhtml">licensing</a>.
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			<abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> standards are important.
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